Any person employed or contracted as a doctor, nurse, midwife, pharmacist, paramedic, medical laboratory scientists, kaiawhina workers, social workers, aged care and community workers, and caregivers more generally

Any entity involved in COVID-19 response, enforcement, planning or logistics or that has civil defence/emergency management functions (including any entity that supplies services for these purposes)

Key public services

Primary industries, including food and beverage production and processing

Any entity involved in the packaging, production and processing of food and beverage products, whether for domestic consumption or export

Any entity involved in relevant support services, such as food safety and verification, inspection or associated laboratory services, food safety and biosecurity functions

Any entity providing veterinary services

Any entity whose closure would jeopardise the maintenance of animal health or welfare standards (including the short-term survival of a species)

Public safety and national security

The Department of Corrections, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Justice, New Zealand Defence Force, New Zealand Police, New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, Government Communications Security Bureau

Courts of New Zealand

Any person employed or contracted in a public safety or national security role

Science

ESR, GNS, GeoNet, NIWA, MetService

Any entity (including research organisations) involved in COVID-19 response

Any entity (including research organisations) involved in hazard monitoring and resilience

Any entity (including research organisations) involved in diagnostics for essential services like biosecurity, public health

Laboratories and Physical Containment level 3 (PC3) facilities that could provide essential services and products that could be used to respond to COVID-19

Other significant research facilities including animal facilities, clinical trials and infrastructure that requires constant attention (eg samples, collections and storage facilities) that are important to New Zealand

Social services

Those entities, including non-government organisations, that provide welfare and social services to meet immediate needs, to be specified jointly by the Ministry of Social Development and Oranga Tamariki

Any entity that provides, or is contracted to an entity that provides, logistics services, including New Zealand Post and courier services

Any entity providing, or is contracted by an entity that provides, transport services to the Ministry of Health, a District Health Board, a Medical Officer of Health, or a Controller (as defined in section 4 of the Civil Defence and Emergency Management Act 2002)

Any entity which provides services related to the maintenance and ongoing operation of critical infrastructure (eg roads, rail, ports, airports)

Any entity which operates or is contracted by an entity listed in Schedule 1 of the Civil Defence and Emergency Management Act 2002, an aerodrome, a passenger and/or freight aviation service, a passenger and/or freight shipping service, a road freight service, a rail freight service, a vehicle recovery service; or a public transport service (under contract with a Regional Council)

Any small passenger service vehicle driver (who holds the relevant licence)

Any entity involved in the production, supply, sale distribution or disposal of electricity, gas, water, waste water (eg sanitation), waste (eg rubbish collection), fuel, telecommunication services, and any entity that is contracted by these entities

News (including news production) and broadcast media

Internet service providers

Any entity that provides maintenance and repair services for utilities and communications, including supply chains

Any entity supplying services to an essential workplaces that are required for the safe operation of that workplace (eg cleaning, security services)

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